Talk:Public Forums

Reorganizing

This page is a bit dense in its specific content, but I think there are other items that should be on this page. Stuff like reading or posting on the forums that might not quantify an entire page by themselves. Since this page is already a mile long, it might be in need of some reorganizing.

Here's a general outline for what I had in mind:

1. Navigating the Forums

(Each of these subsections would link to a new subpage of Public_Forums after a description)

1.1 Core

1.2 PokéFarm

1.3 Pokémon

1.4 Other

2. Reading the Forums

Would have details about the options found on posts, or other things that might not be immediately clear.

3. Posting on the Forums.

Bit of an explanation about posting, using BBCode and the post editor.

4. Forum Moderators

Might be worth mentioning what they do here, unsure though.

Please let me hear your thoughts on this. -Zephyr Foxworth (talk) 16:15, 10 July 2014 (BST)

This looks like a much better plan. Should people begin working on it? -Rose Lalonde (talk) 16:51, 10 July 2014 (BST)

Since there's going to a lot of content moved around as a result, I'd like to hear at least one more person weigh in on this before it gets set into motion. We can draft content here in the meantime. -Zephyr Foxworth (talk) 19:21, 10 July 2014 (BST)

I also like that idea, 3. could also include editing posts. Otherwise I can't think of any improvements. Oh any maybe how to lock/delete a thread? Maybe also polls but this could end up in too much stuff on one page again. --Uzumi (talk) 20:28, 25 July 2014 (BST)

This is a great idea! I'd be happy to help with the page, so count me in. I don't know about having a section exclusively for Forum Mods, if the page is written correctly, information about the Forum Staff can be spread throughout the page, i.e.: Mods being able to lock threads being mentioned when talking about locking threads. -signed, KingVesper (talk) 03:05, 26 July 2014 (BST)

I much agree. When writing information about features leaving out information so that is may become a separate section is considered bad practice. -Lugia101101 (talk) 07:31, 26 July 2014 (BST)

Well this certainly became a lively topic whilst I was away. I'm glad you all like the idea. I've taken your feedback and will get to work on a revision draft (which I probably could've been doing already, derp). I'm not very familiar with the sandbox stuff, so I'll just draft the content itself on a google-doc and worry about the formatting when it comes time to submit the edits. -Zephyr Foxworth (talk) 00:51, 29 July 2014 (BST)